Re: Unsupported nroff macros on MacOS X

[Greg Minshall]

Ken,

> I will admit that my roff-fu is not very good, but I took a look at this.
> It seems this is a common idiom for nmh man pages.  Specifically (this
> is from packf(1) but it's similar everywhere else):

any roff-fu i had expired at my last birthday.

i've recently switched to use asciidoc, which seems to support tables
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https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/tables/build-a-basic-table/
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i convert to man using a configuration file (asciidoc.conf) from Eli
Schwartz:
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https://github.com/eli-schwartz/aurpublish/blob/master/doc/asciidoc.conf
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my makefile rule:
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./%: %.asciidoc asciidoc.conf
        ${A2X} --no-xmllint --asciidoc-opts="-f asciidoc.conf" -d manpage -f 
manpage $<
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(i'm sure all this could be improved.)

converting to asciidoc been liberating, though i'm sure, like any of
these "lightweight markup languages", defeats attempts at fine-tuning
(which, itself, can be very liberating :).

cheers, Greg